Safety Brodney Pool hasn’t played a regular season game yet for the Jets, but secondary coach Dennis Thurman can’t stop praising him, and taking veiled shots at the man he replaced, Kerry Rhodes.

“We have a saying that if a dog’s going to bite, he’s going to bite as a pup,” Thurman told Manish Mehta. “You’d rather pull a guy off the pile than push a guy on. I can slow you down more than I can speed you up. I can make you less aggressive than make you more aggressive. We’ll have to pull Brodney off as opposed to have to push him on. That’s the difference.”